“Forget the scripture that says 'and such was some of you.'”
A Father's Day worship service focused on the theme that God has begun a good work in believers and that grace continues and sustains that work. Pastor emphasizes that unfinished does not mean unwanted, celebrates humble beginnings, warns against selective or "convenient" conviction, and issues invitations for salvation, recommitment, and church membership. The service also includes church announcements (capital campaign, prayer calls, outreach cohort), a pitch for Bright Star Community Outreach's Turn Model Replication Cohort, worship, offering, and pastoral prayer.
“Such were some of you. You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Jon Tyson preaches that the gospel frees people from the power of their past by practicing a biblical form of 'forgetting,' embracing a redeemed time orientation, and living from the future God promises. Using Paul as an example and drawing on psychological insights about time perspective, he calls listeners to surrender their guilt and shame to Jesus and press toward the new life God offers.
“Paul said, “such were some of you, but now you are washed” (referring to being washed/cleansed by Christ).”
A Sunday service sermon calling believers to a transformed, disciplined Christian life — a 'new walk' marked by repentance, holiness, and practical change of habits. The preacher urged the congregation to 'do your first work' (return to first love), put off the old sinful patterns, walk circumspectly, and live visibly as ambassadors for Christ. The service also included health updates, testimonies, baptisms, encouragements to care for one another, and corporate prayer for healing and restoration.
“And such were some of you, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
A Bible study on 1 Corinthians explaining the Holy Spirit's role in the church: empowering preaching, revealing the gospel, transforming believers (washed, sanctified, justified), guiding marriage and singleness, distributing spiritual gifts, enabling discernment and tongues, and the process to receive the Holy Spirit through believing, repentance, baptism in Jesus' name, and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit.
